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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Allegory
Stanza
Stereotype
Satire
2. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Octave
Denotation
Aside
Style
3. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Act
Motif
Ode
Denouement
4. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Ode
Pyrrhic
Persona
Character
5. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Oxymoron
Comic Relief
Epiphany
Audience
6. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Blank Verse
Meter
Hyperbole
Subplot
7. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Enjambment
Parody
Free Verse
Spondee
8. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Closed Form
Iamb
Meter
Audience
9. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Aubade
Mood
Allegory
Sestina
10. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Reversal
Metaphor
Denotation
Alliteration
11. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Pyrrhic
Synecdoche
3rd Person (Limited)
Antagonist
12. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Dialogue
Conceit
Pyrrhic
Hyperbole
13. Broken down acts.
Scenes
Parody
Spondee
Ballad
14. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Image
Analogy
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Quatrain
15. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Reversal
Cliche
Convention
3rd Person (Omniscient)
16. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Ballad
Scenes
Lyric Poem
Figurative Language
17. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Epic
Image
Sonnet
Lyric Poem
18. The main character of a literary work.
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Epigram
Protagonist
19. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Fiction
Scenes
Symbol
Suspense
20. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Narrator
Exposition
Personification
Metonymy
21. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Voice
Protagonist
Foot
Sestet
22. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.
Literal Language
Aubade
Myth
Figurative Language
23. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Myth
Exposition
Closed Form
3rd Person (Omniscient)
24. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Analogy
Conceit
Repetition
Solioquy
25. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Climax
Parallelism
Literal Language
Allusion
26. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Parallelism
1st Person
Legend
Foil
27. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Foreshadowing
Style
Analogy
3rd Person (Limited)
28. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Antagonist
Enjambment
Act
Diction
29. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Denouement
Narrator
Falling Action
Conflict
30. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Closed Form
Motif
Style
Irony
31. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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32. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Comic Relief
Rising Action
Reversal
Climax
33. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Mood
Syntax
Couplet
1st Person
34. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Falling Action
Stanza
Meter
Convention
35. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Blank Verse
Aphorism
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
36. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Allegory
Stereotype
Recognition
Paradox
37. The organizational form of a literary work.
Structure
Villanelle
Audience
Solioquy
38. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Complication
3rd Person (Limited)
Fiction
Legend
39. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Comic Relief
Aside
Symbolism
40. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Tercet
Allusion
Convention
Lyric Poem
41. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Parable
Character
Foot
Protagonist
42. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Denouement
Narrator
Structure
Epigram
43. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Dialect
Repetition
Understatement
Meter
44. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Exposition
Anapest
Apostrophe
Dialect
45. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Setting
Conceit
Iamb
Scenes
46. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Dramatic Irony
Apostrophe
Octave
Rhyme
47. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Mood
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Cliche
48. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Exposition
Internal Conflict
Elision
Ode
49. A short saying with a moral.
3rd Person (Limited)
Legend
Aphorism
Spondee
50. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Myth
Catharsis
Denouement
Free Verse